March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month -- Do You Know About Lynch Syndrome? - Hereditary Cancer Blog - Ambry Genetics

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month -- Do You Know About Lynch Syndrome? - Hereditary Cancer Blog - Ambry Genetics

• By Georgia Hurst
 
• Advocate
 
• Posted March 02, 2017

MARCH IS COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH -- DO YOU KNOW ABOUT LYNCH SYNDROME?

In honor of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, I would like to discuss the most common cause of hereditary colorectal and uterine cancer – Lynch syndrome. In fact, this post is dedicated to my brother Jimmy, who died of colon cancer due to Lynch syndrome at the age of 36.